Richard Potts

Richard Potts (19 July 1753-26 November 1808) was a US Senator from Maryland from 10 January 1793 to 24 October 1796, succeeding Charles Carrollton and preceding John Eager Howard. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party.

Biography
Richard Potts was born in Upper Marlboro, Maryland in 1753, and he worked as a lawyer before serving as a military aide to the Governor of Maryland in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War. From 1789 to 1791, he served as US Attorney for Maryland under President George Washington, and he served as chief judge of the fifth judicial circuit from 1791 to 1793 and from 1796 to 1801, as well as in the US Senate from 1793 to 1796. He died in 1808.